Well, that about wraps it up for Apple then?
I KNEW they'd just make one huge, fatal marketing blunder AGAIN.
If they are lucky, Steve will wake up one morning, realize what he's done and make a frantic phone call.
Can somebody clarify this article?? Wtf has SQL got to do with javascript??
And not only that - WHICH SQL server?? I'm guessing its a proprietary one made by a certain large company legendary for their crashware and cheezy interfaces but maybe thats unfair. Who would know!! IT Journalism standards have dropped through the floor unbelievably.
Unfortunately, this subject is a virtual extended Appendix (or two) to the Tao Of Backup.
There isn't a good final option, apart from (waits for hail of stones)....tape . And tape has become expensive.
I have seen people burning data to DVD-R and burning PAR2 files along with the data. This is a very good solution but there remains one problem - only 4 Gig at a time (don't get me started on BluRay or HD).
If you go the backup-harddrive route, or external harddrive route, there are a couple of things you have to make sure of.
* How you partition the drive and whether the partitions are real or virtual - ie. do they actually occupy different cylinders, which is what you want.
* Have an error-correcting schema of *some* kind. Journaling filesystems like EXT3 or XFS do help, but again PAR2 to the rescue.
* Dont rely on RAID, just don't. Its a failsafe, but not a good one.
"(iTunes) UI is simple and good"
Wow! Please give me the inter-universal coordinates for your universe!
I wanna come and see an iTunes that works intuitively and simply!
Meanwhile, here in the RealVerse.....
Hmm, Why have EA Games decided to send themselves out of business?
I would have thought in the current economic climate over there they'd be shoring their pennies and trying to attract customers.
Not guaranteeing they will never have a sale again and probably lose all their existing clients?
Strange, strange..... maybe its a tax dodge?
Ok something that must be said here that seems to have been overlooked.
Dojo is actually unusable - and yes I mean that perfectly seriously - unless you have somebody around who already has experience with it.
It is completely undocumented - the documentation that exists is sketchy and often wrong. No just listing the class method parameters automagically is not sufficient.
My workplace has just ditched Dojo and is investigating JQuery - with some success thus far - purely on this basis: Dojo is unmaintainable and very slow to work with because of the complete failure to document it and provide good examples.
Its a pity because some of the Dojo widgets are very cute and work very well - if you can ever figure out how to use them.
I'm sure this book will help enormously - but I regard it....no, it has to be regarded - as a vast looming FAIL that a book is *required* to use a library, particularly when its just a JAVASCRIPT library too.
Dojo widgets are also overly-clever in some areas, eg. simple collapse trees don't exist, and this is a major letdown - shops with requirements for cleanliness and maintainability will not use the magic mojo, they will go with simplicity (eg. JQuery) instead.
In summary:
Dojo = FAIL for me/us, mainly for documentation reasons, and its a crying SHAME.
Guys, there has to be something better than this dinosaur SF. Especially that Asimov drivel or gods-help-us Heinlein's absolute CRUD (do you really want moronic hippy lasseiz-faire capitalist individualist fascist dross shoved down their young throats??).
Somebody must have written some good SF for young readers out there, just hunt around.
If you are REALLY determined to go after "the Classics", ie. stuff written long ago, but you want GOOD rather than just PULP:
One thing I can recommend is the 'The White Mountains' trilogy by John Christopher. Its based on the idea that Wells' tripods won the war but didn't completely terraform the earth. More adventure than pure SF but still a very good read and quite intelligent and pithy.
One of the best SF stories I ever read was a young-readers book and I've still got it in my collection, namely:
The Missing Persons League - by Frank Bonham.
http://www.amazon.com/Missing-Persons-League-Point/dp/0590338471
I'm sure there are others, if I think of them I'll put them up here, but I'd seriously question the value of going after the dinosaurs just because they got a lot of publicity: they usually weren't actually that good or even particularly 'Science' fiction.
And don't forget - Short Stories! There were some very very good short stories and some excellent anthologies exist.
Try 'Who Goes There' by John W. Cambell - this will give them nightmares, especially when you show them 'The Thing' which is a fairly faithful telling of it.:)
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None of this crap is relevant.
The original annotator hit the nail on the head. This sets a dangerous precedent.
Well, that about wraps it up for Apple then? I KNEW they'd just make one huge, fatal marketing blunder AGAIN. If they are lucky, Steve will wake up one morning, realize what he's done and make a frantic phone call.
Can somebody clarify this article?? Wtf has SQL got to do with javascript??
And not only that - WHICH SQL server??
I'm guessing its a proprietary one made by a certain large company legendary for their crashware and cheezy interfaces but maybe thats unfair.
Who would know!! IT Journalism standards have dropped through the floor unbelievably.
Unfortunately, this subject is a virtual extended Appendix (or two) to the Tao Of Backup.
There isn't a good final option, apart from (waits for hail of stones)....tape
. And tape has become expensive.
I have seen people burning data to DVD-R and burning PAR2 files along with the data. This is a very good solution but there remains one problem - only 4 Gig at a time (don't get me started on BluRay or HD).
If you go the backup-harddrive route, or external harddrive route, there are a couple of things you have to make sure of.
* How you partition the drive and whether the partitions are real or virtual - ie. do they actually occupy different cylinders, which is what you want. * Have an error-correcting schema of *some* kind. Journaling filesystems like EXT3 or XFS do help, but again PAR2 to the rescue. * Dont rely on RAID, just don't. Its a failsafe, but not a good one.
"(iTunes) UI is simple and good"
Wow! Please give me the inter-universal coordinates for your universe!
I wanna come and see an iTunes that works intuitively and simply!
Meanwhile, here in the RealVerse.....
Hmm, Why have EA Games decided to send themselves out of business?
I would have thought in the current economic climate over there they'd be shoring their pennies and trying to attract customers.
Not guaranteeing they will never have a sale again and probably lose all their existing clients?
Strange, strange..... maybe its a tax dodge?
Totally agree Arkham, and some of them are so 'wanky' it begats pointless. Dojo is a culprit here too.
This *blatant* troll provided me with quite an enjoyable chuckle at my desk at work. How wrong do you want to be in print? Why - THIS wrong! :)
Ok something that must be said here that seems to have been overlooked. Dojo is actually unusable - and yes I mean that perfectly seriously - unless you have somebody around who already has experience with it. It is completely undocumented - the documentation that exists is sketchy and often wrong. No just listing the class method parameters automagically is not sufficient. My workplace has just ditched Dojo and is investigating JQuery - with some success thus far - purely on this basis: Dojo is unmaintainable and very slow to work with because of the complete failure to document it and provide good examples. Its a pity because some of the Dojo widgets are very cute and work very well - if you can ever figure out how to use them. I'm sure this book will help enormously - but I regard it....no, it has to be regarded - as a vast looming FAIL that a book is *required* to use a library, particularly when its just a JAVASCRIPT library too. Dojo widgets are also overly-clever in some areas, eg. simple collapse trees don't exist, and this is a major letdown - shops with requirements for cleanliness and maintainability will not use the magic mojo, they will go with simplicity (eg. JQuery) instead. In summary: Dojo = FAIL for me/us, mainly for documentation reasons, and its a crying SHAME.
This whole article was a troll, right? CD's are deddy deddy dead dead dead. But we all knew that already.
Guys, there has to be something better than this dinosaur SF. Especially that Asimov drivel or gods-help-us Heinlein's absolute CRUD (do you really want moronic hippy lasseiz-faire capitalist individualist fascist dross shoved down their young throats??). Somebody must have written some good SF for young readers out there, just hunt around. If you are REALLY determined to go after "the Classics", ie. stuff written long ago, but you want GOOD rather than just PULP: One thing I can recommend is the 'The White Mountains' trilogy by John Christopher. Its based on the idea that Wells' tripods won the war but didn't completely terraform the earth. More adventure than pure SF but still a very good read and quite intelligent and pithy. One of the best SF stories I ever read was a young-readers book and I've still got it in my collection, namely: The Missing Persons League - by Frank Bonham. http://www.amazon.com/Missing-Persons-League-Point/dp/0590338471 I'm sure there are others, if I think of them I'll put them up here, but I'd seriously question the value of going after the dinosaurs just because they got a lot of publicity: they usually weren't actually that good or even particularly 'Science' fiction. And don't forget - Short Stories! There were some very very good short stories and some excellent anthologies exist. Try 'Who Goes There' by John W. Cambell - this will give them nightmares, especially when you show them 'The Thing' which is a fairly faithful telling of it. :)
I'm sick of this crrp. Can we hit back? Do demonoid have a fighting fund?